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Sprays and Dirac Structures

Differential Geometry 2020-08-18 v1

Abstract

We look at the the possibility of a spray having a Hamiltonian description considering Dirac structure as underlying geometric structure. In a simpler scenario, we consider almost Dirac structure as an auxiliary object to find constants of motion for sprays. Staring with the horizontal distribution associated to a spray, we use gauge transformations generated by two forms in order to obtain constants of motion and possible Hamiltonian description. We also apply our approach to semi-spray with some modifications.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2008.06906,
  title  = {Sprays and Dirac Structures},
  author = {Esmaeil Azizpour and Ghazaleh Moazzami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.06906},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

17 pages, no figure

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